-
Collective Equality: Human Rights and Democracy in Ethno-National Conflicts Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Benjamin Nurkić
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
Whose Right Is Right? The Dialectics of Remedial Secession and Territorial Sovereignty in the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Nguh Nwei Asanga Fon, Nancy Ngum Achu, Collins Nkapnwo Formella
The Cameroon Anglophone crisis which began as a protest by Teachers and Lawyers trade unions toward the end of 2016 has evolved into an intractable conflict that threatens to dismember the West Afr...
-
What Went Wrong?: The Onset of an Age of Discontent Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Adrian Guelke
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
Kazakhs in Mongolia: Navigating Governance, Education, Religion, and National Identity Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Mina Sumaadii, Sumati Luvsandendev, Sean Nguyen
This article introduces readers to a case study of ethnic Kazakhs in Mongolia. The main goal was to identify the institutional factors that are likely to systematically influence Kazakhs’ integrati...
-
Afterword: Consociationalism and the State: Situating Lebanon and Iraq in a Global Perspective Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Shamiran Mako, Allison McCulloch
In this afterword to the special issue on Consociationalism and the State: Lebanon and Iraq in Comparative Perspective, we reflect on the insights from the articles in the special issue and their c...
-
Special Issue Introduction: Consociationalism and the State: Lebanon and Iraq in Comparative Perspective Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Toby Dodge, Bassel F. Salloukh
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024)
-
“My Country First”: Vaccine Nationalism in England? Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Gordana Uzelac, Sarah Carol, Lea David, Siniša Malešević
This article asks what the main factors are that influence the expression of Vaccine Nationalism among the population of England. The analysis is based on data collected in 2021 as part of the proj...
-
Prospects for Ethnic Harmony in Post-GoHomeGota Protest in Sri Lanka: An Analysis of #Aragalaya on Twitter Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Sandunika Hasangani
In early 2022, in the wake of the state collapse in Sri Lanka (due to a severe economic meltdown with near-political anarchy), we observed an extraordinary ambience of ethnic tolerance and together...
-
The Boundaries of Democracy: A Theory of Inclusion Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Nur Fajriani S., Satrio Alpen Pradanna
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Ahead of Print, 2023)
-
The Untold Story of the Golan Heights: Occupation, Colonization and Jawlani Resistance Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Ahead of Print, 2023)
-
A Diverse Minority of Intolerance: Ethnic Relations in a Multicultural Society Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Mathieu Lizotte
This study contributes to the international literature on ethnic relations and multiculturalism by empirically examining the claim that ethnic diversity can undermine social cohesion. The specific ...
-
Beyond Binaries and Polarization? Rethinking Pluralist Inclusion in Immigrant Nations Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Elke Winter
Empirically, the papers in this special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics focus on what lies in between the statuses of insider and outsider, namely the often-overlooked conditionality and t...
-
The Value of Normative Models for Understanding Pluralism Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Howard Ramos
Contemporary debates on nationalism, ethnicity, race, identity, and citizenship are largely shaped by the trends of the twentieth century and now wrestle with new problems that do not easily fit ol...
-
Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Raymond Foxworth
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Ahead of Print, 2023)
-
Ukraine according to Zelensky: Populism and National Identity in Presidential Addresses to Compatriots Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Volodymyr Kulyk
The article analyzes the interplay of populism and national identity in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Facebook communications, with particular attention to his direct addresses to compat...
-
Autocratization as Ethnocratization? How Regime Transformations toward Autocracy Deteriorate Ethnic Relations Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Guido Panzano
When a country becomes more autocratic, does it affect the relations between ethnic groups in a systematic way? Cross-national and case-based research witnesses how autocratization (the opposite of...
-
Acculturation and Perceived Discrimination: The Case of Israeli Arabs Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Hannah M. Ridge
Minoritized communities are often expected to integrate into the majority culture. In theory, acculturation, like local education and language-learning, benefits these communities. However, recent ...
-
Understanding Substantive Representation of Women in Consociational Post-Conflict Political Systems Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Saša Gavrić
Feminist critics of power-sharing argue that consociational structures privilege ethnic groups and that power-sharing is “bad for women.” This article identifies a gap in the relatively new field o...
-
ייִדיש לעבט/Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Mneesha Gellman
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Ahead of Print, 2023)
-
Puerto Rico’s Constitutional Paradox: Colonial Subordination, Democratic Tension, And Promise of Progressive Transformation Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Hendri Irawan, Satrio Alpen Pradanna, Ibnu Hermawan
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Ahead of Print, 2023)
-
Silenced Heritage: Israel’s Heritage Plan Vis-à-Vis Non-Jewish History Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Rudy Kisler
Cultural heritage (e.g., historic buildings, memorials and museums) has been used to construct and negotiate various identities and meanings in the present, specifically in the context of nation-st...
-
Populist Nationalism and Anti-refugee Sentiment in Turkey: The Case of the Victory Party Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-09-10 H. Bahadır Türk
Abstract Throughout the last decade, the refugee issue has profoundly impacted global politics. Accordingly, this study seeks to provide insight into a new political phenomenon in Turkey, namely, the Victory Party (Zafer Partisi, ZP) by analyzing the characteristics of the party’s political discourse. Using content analysis and the discourse-historical approach as an extension of critical discourse
-
We May Disagree, but We All Love the BJP: Populists’ Networks and Targeting Opportunities on Twitter Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Ishmael Ali Maxwell
Abstract With the rise of social media, politicians face new challenges and opportunities in presenting their messages online to large and diverse constituencies. Populists especially have capitalized on social media to achieve wide electoral success. This paper explores populists’ opportunities to target their constituencies online using the case of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Twitter
-
Multi-lingual Democracy: Switzerland and Beyond Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Jennifer Todd
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
-
National Identity During Covid-19: Evidence from the Vaccinated and the Unvaccinated in Israel Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Gal Ariely
Abstract This article uses the case of the Covid-19 pandemic in Israel to examine whether there are differences in national identity between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated and how national identity is related to public views of the unvaccinated. A three-wave panel survey measuring national attachment, national chauvinism, and constructive patriotism from before and during the pandemic was used
-
Grievances, Policies or Clientelism? The Different Logics behind Ethnic Voting in Democracies and Autocracies Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Clara Peckelhoff, Felix Schulte
Abstract In this article, we explore the reasons why some ethnic groups tend to vote along ethnic lines while others do not. We argue that existing explanations for ethnic voting can be grouped into three main approaches: policy-based, grievance-based, and clientelism. However, we contend that inconsistencies in previous empirical research come from a failure to account for the political context in
-
From Muhasasa to Mawatana: Consociationalism and Identity Transformation within the Protest Movement in Federal Iraq, 2011–2019 Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Taif Alkhudary
This article uses Margaret Somers’ and Charles Tilly’s work on discursive approaches to identity to argue that failures in Iraq’s sectarian power-sharing system, Al Muhasasa Al Ta’ifia, have led to...
-
“Improving People’s Lives”: The Socioeconomic Turn in Party Justifications for Constitutional Change Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Carles Ferreira
Abstract By performing a manifesto content analysis, this article maps the discourse of secessionist parties on constitutional change cross-case (Belgium, Canada, Spain, and the UK) and over time (1990–2020). The results show that secessionist parties are pragmatic organizations that also advance devolutionist demands as a steppingstone toward full independence. Concerning framing, the results identify
-
Nationalism in the Vernacular: States, Tribes, and the Politics of Peace in Northeast India Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Nitish Gogoi
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
-
Consociationalism and the State Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Matthijs Bogaards
The state has never been a central category in consociational analysis, but recent developments have put the state on the radar of consociational scholars. This article is the first to survey and s...
-
Iraq, Consociationalism and the Incoherence of the State Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Toby Dodge
This paper uses Iraq as a case study to answer the research question, how do consociational settlements impact the state? Firstly, the paper argues that consociationalism, at best, has an under-the...
-
Hailing in the Face of Covid-19: On the Uses and Abuses of Heroism Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Elke Winter, Leah Bassel, Marina Gomá
In this paper, we examine the paradoxes of hailing health care workers as “Covid-19 heroes” in Canada and the United Kingdom. We ask how public discourses—primarily by governments, politicians, mai...
-
Citizenship, Indigeneity and the Management of Herders and Farmers Conflicts in Ghana and Nigeria Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Ifeanyi Onwuzuruigbo
Abstract In recent times, Nigeria and Ghana have experienced bloody conflicts between herders and farmers. Studies identify indigeneity and citizenship struggles as causal factors of the conflicts. Ghana and Nigeria have implemented policies and legislations to manage herders and farmers conflicts. Because scholarly engagement with the policies and legislations are relatively scant, the ways in which
-
The Kurdish Consociational Experiment in Post-Saddam Iraq: A Practice-Theoretical Approach Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Michiel Leezenberg
This paper addresses the application of consociationalism to post-authoritarian Iraq. Traditionally, consociationalism has served as simultaneously an analytical tool and a normative constitutional...
-
Like Snow in the Sun. The German Minority in Denmark in Historical Perspective Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Martin Klatt
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2023)
-
Power-Sharing Models for Postwar Syria: Consociational vs. Centripetal Options Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Imad Salamey, Takla Katoul Rahbani
Abstract This article explores potential power-sharing models for post-conflict Syria. It surveys the literature on the need for power-sharing as a conflict management tool for deeply divided societies and explores its suitability for Syria. Two particular power-sharing models are explored: the consociational and centripetal. Both arrangements are examined through a comparative research that assesses
-
Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective: A New Politics of Diversity for the 21st Century? Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Östen Wahlbeck
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2023)
-
Ethnic Identity in Social and Political Domains: A New Conceptual Model Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Kutbettin Kilic
Abstract In this paper, I attempt to build on and improve a significant conceptual innovation, made by Rogers Brubaker, between the terms ethnic category and ethnic group. This conceptual distinction problematizes groupist approaches and takes ethnic groupness as a variable to explore processes and dynamics of ethnic group formation. In this study, I improve and develop Brubaker’s conceptual distinction
-
Crimea in Ukraine: Smoothing the Edges as Diversity Institutionalization Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Alexander Osipov
Abstract From the early 1990s, Ukrainian Crimea seemed to face the Russian majority’s separatist inclinations and far-reaching political claims of the formerly deported Crimean Tatars. Nevertheless, the peninsula’s autonomous status secured ethnopolitical stability for about 19 years, and the article considers how the established regime of diversity governance contributed to the autonomy’s endurance
-
Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908–1914: Claiming the Homeland Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Övgü Ülgen
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2023)
-
Ideational Models of Immigrant Integration in Japan: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Dynamics of Policy Frames Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Eléonore Komai
Abstract This article explores migrant integration policy frames in Japan based on a multi-scalar research design. The development of migrant integration frames mirrors a process where the local scale has contributed to the development of a national policy based on the concept of “multicultural coexistence.” Under the impulsion of immigration reforms, the central government has consolidated the national
-
Lebanon’s Political Opposition in Search of Identity: He Who Is Without Sect among You Cast the First Stone Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Ibrahim Halawi
This paper grapples with the impact of the postwar consociational system in Lebanon on the articulation and organization of political opposition, focusing on the period between 2011 and Lebanon’s O...
-
Conflict Mitigation versus Governance: The Case of Consociation in Iraq Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Dylan O’Driscoll, Irene Costantini
Consociational power sharing has become one of the leading mechanisms of governance introduced in deeply divided post-conflict societies. When communal divisions seem intractable, it is seen as a w...
-
The Paradox of Pluralism: Municipal Integration Policy in Québec Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Bob W. White
Researchers in social sciences have become increasingly interested in how pluralism is used in the context of local government, especially with regards to municipal administrations’ efforts to make...
-
“Why Do We Need a World without Russia in It?” Discursive Justifications of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in Russia and Germany Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Polina Zavershinskaia
Abstract Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which started on February 24, 2022, has marked a turning point in Russian-Western relations. While liberal democratic societies’ unanimous condemnation of that invasion was followed by unprecedented sanctions and a rupture of diplomatic and economic relations with Russia, some Western social and political actors supported, to some extent, the Russian
-
The State of Consociationalism in Lebanon Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Bassel F. Salloukh
Deploying a critical juncture agency approach, this paper undertakes a genealogy of the adoption of consociationalism at colonial state formation in Lebanon to compare different consociational expe...
-
Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Yana Volkova
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2023)
-
Bringing the State and Political Economy Back in: Consociationalism and Crisis in Lebanon Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Hannes Baumann
Beirut’s 2015 garbage crisis provoked protests against unaccountable elites. Consociationalists consider such crises an external “load” on the system. I argue that consociation can actually cause c...
-
An Identity in Quests for Self-Determination: The Case of Indigenous People of Biafra Separatist Movement in Nigeria Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Jeremiah Osasume Okaisabor
Abstract Since the lull of nationalist struggles and after many merged ethnic-nationalities attained statehood, separatist movements with distinctive identities have increased their agitations for self-determination. The deficit or decline of national cohesion in Nigeria and other independent states has been ascribed to the proliferation and radicalization of separatist movements. Therefore, to provide
-
The Impact of European Conceptions on the Idea of a Nation in Georgia between 1893 and 1917 Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Nino Maisuradze
Abstract Because Georgia was a part of Russia’s Tsarist Empire in 1893–1917, this political phase of the modern Georgian nation’s development was accompanied not only by socioeconomic but also by independence issues. It is worth noting that, to achieve independence, a portion of Georgia’s political elite chose European-oriented policies. They used well-known concepts of the nation created by European
-
India’s Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Sharmila Narayana
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2023)
-
Complicity in Discourse and Practice Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Paul Dekker
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2023)
-
Staggered Inclusion: Between Temporary and Permanent Immigration Status in Quebec, Canada Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Danièle Bélanger, Myriam Ouellet, Capucine Coustere, Charles Fleury
Pathways to permanent residency among immigrants in Canada have become more often preceded by a phase of temporariness. Research on these processes indicates that a two-step immigration regime is g...
-
Institutional Designs to Manage Ethnic Diversity in Conflict-Affected States: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical Innovations Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Giuditta Fontana
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2023)
-
The Renewal of Alsatian Nationalism Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Etienne B. Schmitt
Abstract Alsace is usually known in nationalism studies as the historical object of conflict between France and Germany. This peripheral region is rarely studied as a minority nation struggling for recognition and claiming autonomy. This article aims to conceptualize Alsatian nationalism and its renewed practices and representations amidst mobilization against the merger of Alsace into the Grand-Est
-
Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Interest and Identity in Russia and the Post-Soviet Space, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Jack Cathcart
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2022)
-
To Hope or Not to Hope: Liberalism, Neoliberalism, and Learning from Lebanon’s 2022 Election Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Stephen Deets
Abstract This Rapid Communication examines Lebanon’s 2022 Parliamentary election in the context of other recent elections in consociational and populist regimes. The Lebanese electorate is now divided both by sectarian identity and by a pro- versus anti-establishment cleavage. This second cleavage makes Lebanon look more like other electoral authoritarian regimes. In light of scholarly work that ties
-
Conservatism and the Re-Communitarianization of Citizenship in Canada Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2022-11-24 John Carlaw, Elke Winter
While the values and practices usually subsumed under the notion of “good citizenship” are said to have changed dramatically over the past 25 years or so, scholars are still struggling to character...
-
Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Yana Volkova
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2022)
-
Distance, Regional Identities and Parties: A Comparative Analysis of Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia and the Canary Islands Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2022-10-16 Guillermo Reyes Pascual
Abstract This article examines how geographical distance affects how political parties articulate regional identities at the subnational level. This is done by applying construal-level theory, hypothesizing that the further away a region is from the center, the more distinct and unique peripheral identities will tend to be framed by these political actors. Qualitatively analyzing regional party manifestos